Empire and Postcolonial Studies Research Group

Events

OU-Institute of Commonwealth seminars on Counterinsurgency and Colonialism: 1. ‘Negotiating with the Enemy’.

Workshop to be held at the ICS, London on Friday 24 September 2010. A draft programme is available to download [PDF, 56 KB]

Workshop jointly organised with the Asian Research Institute, Singapore, on Reassessing the origins of the Southeast Asian Cold War 11-12 July 2008

Papers published as a special edition of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40, 9 (October 2009). Papers published as a special edition of Kajian Malaysia, 27, 1 & 2 (2009), are available online. A further paper by Leon Comber on police intelligence is available online in PDF format.

Forthcoming in 2011

Colonialism, environment, and climate change (forthcoming in 2011).

Interdisciplinary workshop organised jointly with Geography and the School of Advanced Study, London. Contact: s.k.h azareesingh@open.ac.uk

Anti-colonial activism: Campaigns in and Beyond Africa and Asia (forthcoming in 2011).

Despite a growing body of work on anti-colonial movements and the activities of individual activists, there remain large gaps in our knowledge of early agitation in and around Africa and Asia, and the links between people. This seminar will focus on early transnational networking, particularly by journalists and other types of writer, which laid the foundations for later nationalist struggle and today’s globalised human rights activism.
Contact: l.hughes@open.ac.uk